Their work was published July 8 in PLOS Biology. It was surprising that all of this could be controlled by one gene, said Matthew Herron, a postdoc at the University of Montana and an expert inVolvox algae. Their work was exceptionally thorough.
Date: Jul 09, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Evolution is Surprisingly Predictable: Specialization isn't so Special
Published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers watched separate populations of the bacteria evolve in different environments over more than 1000 generations. Conducted by Matthew Herron and Michael Doebeli, the experiment involved three different populations total.